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Johanna McFie

Signed family name
McFie
Signed given name
Johanna
Given address
North Road Waikouaiti
Sheet number
Town/Suburb
Waikouaiti
City/Region
Otago
Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley.

Previouslyt transcribed as Johanna McFee.

Johanna McCutcheon was born about 1849 in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland.

She came to New Zealand in the late 1870s, and she married builder William Owen McFie in 1880.

They had six children, one who died in infancy. When Johanna signed the suffrage petition they were living in North Rd, Waikouaiti.

William died in 1931 and Johanna died at her home on May 6th 1940. They are buried together in the Waikouaiti Cemetery.

Sources

BDM Online NZ

DCC Cemetery Records

Family Search

Otago Nominal Index

Papers Past

Click on sheet number to see the 1893 petition sheet this signature appeared on. Digital copies of the sheets supplied by Archives New Zealand.